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Overnight Jam: Bob Schneider, "The Stars Over Your House" (Live)

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam2/18/2016 4:23:52 am PST

Quite indirectly, boobs led to the invention of the stethoscope.

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Direct application of a doctor’s ear to a lady’s chest to listen to her heart was, shall we say, not ideal in the 19th century. Or any century, I suppose. Then a French doctor had an inspiration: he rolled up a sheet of paper into a tube and used that to listen to his patient’s heartbeat. Turns out it worked better than just using his ear. He refined the instrument, later called the stethoscope.